Congratulations to the winners of the annual physics teaching awards at the Physics Banquet hosted at the Kingston Brew Pub.

Prof. Dignam (left) received the Geoff Lockwood Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching , Prof. Morelli received the Excellence in Instruction in the Engineering Physics Program award, and Prof. Martin Duncan, who was unable to attend, received the Excellence in Instruction in Pure Physics award.

A huge congratulations to an impressive group of fourth year Physics Engineering Students who were all being honoured for being Dean’s Scholars every term of their academic careers at Queen's. In total there were 18 Engineering Physics students being honoured, with 7 able to attend the ceremony.

Dr. Webster, who is a graduate of Queen's Engineering Physics, developed the key Laser Depth Dynamics (LDD) technology called Inline Coherent Imaging (ICI) during his PhD under the supervision of Prof. James Fraser. For more information about the purchase of LDD, please visit Inline Coherent Imaging Goes Global.

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Congratulations on your retirement Prof. Duncan!
From left to right: Prof. Duncan, Prof. Levison, wife Martha Hill Duncan, and daughter Claire Duncan at the Faculty Club retirement luncheon. For more pictures of the event please visit Prof. Duncan's retirement.

Dr. Shastri will be joining the Department in July 2018 as a new Engineering Physics Faculty member.

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Congratulations! The first CFI grant, lead by Prof. Noble, will be used to build a next generation detector, PICO 500L, that will search for dark matter, while the second grant, lead by Profs. Hughes and Fraser, will be used to establish the Queen’s Nanophotonics Research Centre, which will explore the behaviour of light and light-matter interactions on the nanometre scale. See full article on Queen's Gazette.
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Congratulations! Prof. Kristine Spekkens (cross-appointed from the Royal Military College of Canada) is part of a research team that has secured a $10 million CFI Innovation Fund award for the development of a radio astronomy data centre. Click for more details of the story.

Fourth year Physics student, Iain MacKenzie (left) was sponsored by the Department to participate in the Hult Prize held in Dubai. To read about this year’s focus, his team’s performance and their experience, please read the Hult Prize Sponsorship story.

(Photo: provided by MacKenzie)

The PICO Collaboration, co-led by Prof. Tony Noble of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, have found new exciting results from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector which is a bubble chamber filled with 52kg of C3F8. To read the submitted paper, please visit online at arXiv. (Photo: Queen's Gazette)

Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald and the entire SNO Collaboration who have been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! The $ 3 million prize is shared with four other international experimental collaborations studying neutrino oscillations: The Superkamiokande, Kamland, T2K/K2K and Daya Bay scientific collaborations.

Dr. Alex Wright has been awarded $400,000 from the Canada Foundation for ...read more

Dec 2013

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mark Chen has been named to the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, effective 1 July 2014.

Nov 2013

Physics graduate student David Taylor was awarded the Educational Excellence Teaching Assistant Award for 2012/13 by the Queen's Engineering Society (EngSoc)...read more

Nov 2013

Dr. Jean-Michel Nunzi is featured in an article by the Queen's News Centre regarding his leading-edge research in photonics...read more

Oct 2013

A team of Queen's Physics undergraduate students has won the bid to host the *50th* Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference in Fall 2014.The conference will bring approximately...read more

Sept 2013

Medical physicist John Schreiner has won one of the Fellow of COMP awards presented at the joint annual scientific meeting of...read more

Aug 2013

PhD student Majd Abdelqader has won a Hartle Award for the best student presentation in his specialist session at...read more

June 2013

Prof. Marc Dignam was named the recipient of the 2012/13 Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Teaching Physics, as selected by students...read more

June 2013

Jean-Michel Nunzi and co-applicants James Stotz and Dominik Barz (Chem. Eng.) won a $400,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...read more

May 2013

The 2013 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology in the past 15 years...read more

Mar 2013

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Experimental Particle Astrophysics Applications are now invited for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Particle Astrophysics in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy.

Dec 2012

From the Queen's News Centre: "As senior research associate for the SNOLAB Research Group, Dr. Skensved has made substantial contributions to the success of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and now the SNOLAB underground laboratory...read more

Oct 2012

Paul Webster was awarded the 2012 Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship from the Ontario Centres of Excellence...read more

Aug 2012

James Fraser has been awarded the 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching -- the most prestigious award for teaching at Queen's. Details can be found read more.

May 2012

3MT is a university wide competition for Queen's Masters and Doctoral students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in 3 minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges..read more

Kevin Robbie (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) and his team received $1.4 million...read more

Sept 2009

From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-09-03 An international team of astronomers, including Queen's University physicist Larry Widrow, have uncovered evidence of a nearby cosmic encounter...read more

June 2009

From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-06-23 Queen's University physicists Mark Boulay and Mark Chen have received over $10.5 million...read more

May 2009

From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-05-15 Queen's Physics professor Art McDonald is one of three Canadians elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK...read more

James Stotz was recently been awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation...read more

June 2008

Stephen Hughes and James Stotz, in collaboration with groups at NRC, UBC, U. Waterloo, and...read more

April 2008

Taken from the Queen's News Centre at http://qnc.queensu.ca: Physicist Art McDonald, director of the Queen's-led Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is one of 30 Canadians who was awarded Officer of the Order of Canada at last week's investiture ceremony in Ottawa...read more

April 2008

The American Physical Society has identified Kayll Lake as an Outstanding Referee, a category which they reserve for individuals who provide a continuing and very high level of expert service to the international scientific community...read more

Jan 2008

On Friday January 18th, Ontario Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson presented $18 million over 5 years to Anthony Noble, SNOLAB Director, for ongoing research at the world's deepest scientific laboratory...read more